"Jonker wants to be one of a growing number of people – almost 400 in 2024 – that are granted euthanasia on these grounds, otherwise known as “an accumulation of geriatric conditions”. They represented almost 4 per cent of the…
Legislators and doctors are struggling to define who should have the right to die. Milou Verhoof was a physically healthy teenager from the Netherlands when she asked to be allowed to die. For years she had struggled with borderline personality disorder,…
Euthanasia in the simplest sense involves intentionally ending a person's life to relieve ongoing suffering such as suffering from an irrecoverable or an incurable state of being and is a complex and evolving issue in the Indian landscape. While death…
Pippa Hudson of CapeTalk interviews Willem Landman, co-founder of Dignity South Africa. Dr. Sean Davison was detained in the United Kingdom in July of 2024 on charges of assisting suicide.
A mother has admitted giving her terminally ill seven-year-old son a large dose of morphine to stop his suffering and "quietly end his life". Antonya Cooper, from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, said her son Hamish had stage 4 cancer and was in…
In the Netherlands, this is known as duo-euthanasia. It’s legal, and it’s rare - but every year, more Dutch couples choose to end their lives this way. Jan and Els were married for almost five decades. In early June, they…
A Friends at the End talk by Dr Ellen Wiebe, a Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD) provider from Canada. Dr. Wiebe talks about the criteria for physician aid in dying in Canada and tells us about some of her patients,…
The issue of advance directives for dementia is a hot topic in the right to die field. In the US there is little legal guidance on this issue. Ethicists argue whether it is ethical to honor these documents once a…
This video features Dr. Stefanie Green, co-founder and current President of the Canadian Association of MAID Assessors and Providers (CAMAP). Stefanie is medical advisor to the BC Ministry of Health medical aid in dying oversight committee and moderator of CAMAP's…
By Joseph Pierre, Psychiatrist - in Aeon May 15, 2018 "Indeed, the American Veterinary Medical Association Guidelines for the Euthanasia of Animals (2013) acknowledges that ‘there is no consensus on when it is appropriate to let [a] life go’, but…
An Economist film Emily is 24 years old, physically healthy and lives in Belgium, where euthanasia is legal, even for children.
by Faye Girsh, President Hemlock Society of San Diego Love him or hate him, Jack Kevorkian was the face of the right-to-die movement for almost a decade. As he forced people to confront the struggle of suffering people seeking a…
The Colombian Constitution provides a solid basis for decriminalizing merciful homicide, when a person who is undergoing intense suffering caused by an incurable illness, requests that it be put to an end, which implies causing death. I will briefly refer…